Table Of ContentExploring New Horizons in Career Counselling
Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling
Turning Challenge into Opportunities
Edited by
Kobus Maree
University of Pretoria, South Africa
and
Annamaria Di Fabio
University of Florence, Italy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Wendy Patton
Part 1: Merging Retrospect and Prospect to Move Career
Counselling Forward 1
1. Blending Retrospect and Prospect in Order to Convert Challenges into
Opportunities in Career Counselling 3
J. G. (Kobus) Maree
2. Converging Vistas from Scores and Stories: An Integrative Approach
to Career Counselling 25
Patrick J. Rottinghaus, Aaron D. Miller, Alec Eshelman
and Nupur Sahai
3. Life Adaptability Qualitative Assessment (LAQuA): A Narrative
Instrument for Evaluating Counselling Intervention Effectiveness 43
Annamaria Di Fabio
Part 2: Projecting into the Future: Theoretical Conjectures 63
4. Mapping a Personal Career Theory 65
Mark Watson
5. Career Human Agency Theory 77
C. P. (Charles) Chen
6. Systemic Thinking: A Foundation for ‘Doing’ Narrative
Career Counselling 99
Mary McMahon
7. Exploring New Perspectives in Coaching: Coaching as a
New Paradigm for Career Interventions 117
Raoul Van Esbroeck and Marie-Thérèse Augustijnen
8. Limitation and Creativity: A Chaos Theory of Careers Perspective 131
Jim E. H. Bright and Robert G. L. Pryor
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Part 3: Anticipating and Managing Career-Related
Changes and Challenges 149
9. Promoting Transferable Non-Cognitive Factors for College and
Career Readiness 151
A. J. Metz, Alexandra Kelly and Paul A. Gore
10. Imagined and Unconscious Career Barriers: A Challenge for Career
Decision Making in the 21st Century 167
Nimrod Levin and Itamar Gati
11. Work Traumas and Unanticipated Career Transitions 189
Jennifer J. Del Corso
12. Career Development for Children: Addressing Barriers, Challenging
Perceptions, and Building Hope 205
Jacqueline J. Peila-Shuster
13. Turning Transition into Triumph: Applying Schlossberg’s Transition
Model to Career Transition 219
Susan R. Barclay
Part 4: Career Adaptability and Transition 233
14. A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Career Adaptability in Career
Construction Theory 235
Peter McIlveen and Warren Midgley
15. Career Decision Making and Career Adaptability 249
Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown
16. Counselling toward Career Adaptability: The Charge of a New Era 263
Kevin B. Stoltz
Part 5: Advancing Social Justice 279
17. Social Justice: A Seminal and Enduring Career Counselling Ideal 281
Dale S. Furbish
18. Career Counselling with Underserved Populations: The Role of Cultural
Diversity, Social Justice, and Advocacy 297
Mark Pope
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Part 6: Using Dialogues to Foster Awareness and Self-Direction
in Career Counselling 313
19. Playwright Meets Career Coach: Writing Dialogues to Promote
Awareness and Self-Direction 315
Reinekke Lengelle and Frans Meijers
Part 7: Epilogue 329
20. The Next Horizon of Career Counselling: Ethics—The
Philosophy of Living 331
Peter McIlveen
Contributors 341
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WENDY PATTON
FOREWORD
This is a significant book in the career literature as it brings together authors from
across the globe to pose new perspectives for career counselling in response to the
significant, complex, and rapidly increasing challenges in the world of work. The
book is impressive as each contributor challenges their own thinking, and in turn
our field, to move beyond traditional paradigms and approaches to working with
clients. In the introductory chapter, Maree quotes Romer “A crisis is a terrible thing
to waste”. What is so positive in the current book is the response to the workplace
challenges where each of the authors has undertaken to respond with positive
suggestions for the field, and for the practice of career counselling – “ to convert
challenges into opportunities” (Maree).
Part one of the book carefully blends what we know with emerging approaches.
Maree focuses on integrated strategies which blend qualitative+qualitative
approaches, with an emphasis on “promoting clients’ wellbeing and resilience”.
Rottinghaus and colleagues also extend their developing work which focuses on
combining traditional quantitative approaches with narrative methods to “achieve
a more holistic understanding of clients’ concerns”. Finally, Di Fabio proposes a
new narrative instrument to evaluate clients’ change following life design based
interventions.
Part two provides a strong collection of 5 chapters which provide theoretical
paradigms which can be applied to a changing world of work. These frameworks
include the development of a personal career theory map (Watson), the introduction
of coaching as a new paradigm for career interventions (Van Esbroeck), and Bright
and Pryor extend their chaos theory perspective to discuss limitation and creativity.
McMahon extends the Systems Theory Framework to develop suggestions for
career practitioners in ‘doing’ narrative career counselling. Finally, in this section,
Chen draws from seven existing career theories to develop CHAT, Career Human
Agency Theory, which he describes as a metatheory of career psychology. Each of
these chapters provides direct suggestions to enhance practitioners’ understandings,
and also to assist clients to develop their own personal theoretical frameworks. Each
chapter challenges new ways of thinking in addition to offering suggestions to guide
career counselling practice.
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